{"id":19800,"date":"2018-05-08T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/retro_studios_handled_the_donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze_port_on_nintendo_switch"},"modified":"2018-05-08T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T15:30:00","slug":"retro-studios-handled-the-donkey-kong-country-tropical-freeze-port-on-nintendo-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/retro-studios-handled-the-donkey-kong-country-tropical-freeze-port-on-nintendo-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Studios Handled The Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Port On Nintendo Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/retro_studios_handled_the_donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze_port_on_nintendo_switch\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/retro_studios_handled_the_donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze_port_on_nintendo_switch\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Yay!\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/retro_studios_handled_the_donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze_port_on_nintendo_switch\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/retro_studios_handled_the_donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze_port_on_nintendo_switch\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Yay!\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze\"><strong>Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze<\/strong><\/a> coming to Switch has given one of the Wii U&#8217;s most enjoyable platformers the chance to find a new audience &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/consumers_go_bananas_for_donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze_in_this_weeks_uk_charts\">which it most certainly has<\/a> &#8211; but it also raised the question of who was actually handling the porting duties.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, other studios have been brought in to handle ports for Nintendo. When the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/donkey_kong_country_returns\"><strong>Donkey Kong Country Returns<\/strong><\/a> was released on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/donkey_kong_country_returns_3d\">3DS<\/a>, Monster Games was in charge of carrying Retro Studios&#8217; work over to the small screen &#8211; Monster was also enlisted to bring <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/xenoblade_chronicles\">Xenoblade Chronicles<\/a><\/strong> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/new-3ds\/xenoblade_chronicles_3d\">New 3DS<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>However, it would seem that in the case of Tropical Freeze on Switch, Nintendo has returned to source. It was confirmed during the recent <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nintendopowerpodcast\/donkey-kong-country-tropical-freeze-our-favorite-donkey-kong-games\">Nintendo Power podcast<\/a> by Treehouse staffer Samantha Robertson that Retro was in charge of porting duties.<\/p>\n<p>Retro hasn&#8217;t revealed what it has been working on since Tropical Freeze hit the Wii U back in 2014. We imagine that the team involved with porting the game to Switch will have been quite small, but it&#8217;s still a little surprising that Nintendo didn&#8217;t out-source this work to another firm to free up resources for Retro&#8217;s current project &#8211; which, lest we forget, we still know <em>nothing<\/em> about.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What we <em>do<\/em> know is that one of the company&#8217;s lead writers and narrative designers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/retro_studios_writer_and_cinematic_designer_parts_company_with_the_firm\">recently left<\/a>, which would suggest that his role in Retro&#8217;s unannounced project(s) is either finished, or he simply had enough of working there.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, we still know nothing. Roll on E3, eh?<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to\u00a0RunninBlue for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze coming to Switch has given one of the Wii U&#8217;s most enjoyable platformers the chance to find a new audience &#8211; which it most certainly has &#8211; but it also raised the question of who was actually handling the porting duties. In the past, other studios have been brought in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}